University of South Carolina Press Podcast

University of South Carolina Press Podcast

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Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

December 29, 2023

Stories of Struggle

Claudia Smith Brinson
Hosted by Matt Simmons

In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…

Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry, "Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)

October 13, 2023

Invisible No More

Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry
Hosted by Adam McNeil

Since its founding in 1801, African Americans have played an integral, if too often overlooked, role in the history of the University of South Carolin…

M. V. Hood and Seth C. McKee, "Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story" (U South Carolina Press, 2022)

February 8, 2023

Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South

M. V. Hood and Seth C. McKee
Hosted by Brandon Jett

Beginning with the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 and extending through the 2020 election cycle, political scientists M.V. Hood III and Seth C. McKee trace …

Michele Kennerly, "Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics" (U South Carolina Press, 2018)

November 5, 2021

Editorial Bodies

Michele Kennerly
Hosted by Lee Pierce

Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve…

Lettie Gay, "Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)

September 1, 2021

Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking

Lettie Gay

Southern Food Historian Rebecca Sharpless discusses a new edition of Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking released in 2021 by University of South C…

Daniel M. Harrison, "Live At Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)

January 18, 2021

Live At Jackson Station

Daniel M. Harrison
Hosted by Morris Ardoin

The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club in Hodges, South C…

John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

November 5, 2020

Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery

John Garrison Marks
Hosted by Adam McNeil

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and ne…

Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South" (U South Carolina Press)

March 13, 2020

Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South

Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts
Hosted by Beth English

Professors Melissa Walker of Converse College and Giselle Roberts of Australia’s La Trobe University, editors of the Women’s Diaries and Letters of th…

Candace L. Bailey, "Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord" (U South Carolina Press, 2019)

June 26, 2019

Charleston Belles Abroad

Candace L. Bailey
Hosted by Kristen Turner

Microhistories are an important method of investigating an historical moment with a fine-grain focus that can puncture holes in the generalizations th…

Ata Anzali, "'Mysticism' in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept" (U South Carolina Press, 2017)

July 20, 2018

Mysticism in Iran

Ata Anzali
Hosted by SherAli Tareen

In his sparkling new book, "Mysticism" in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept (University of South Carolina Press, 2017), Ata Anzali, Assistan…

Adam Gaiser, "Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism and the Making of an Early Islamic Community" (U South Carolina Press, 2016)

October 18, 2017

Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities

Adam Gaiser
Hosted by SherAli Tareen

Adam Gaiser's majestic new book Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism and the Making of an Early Islamic Community (University of So…

Simon A. Wood and David H. Watt, eds., "Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History" (U South Carolina Press, 2014)

June 8, 2015

Fundamentalism

Simon A. Wood and David Harrington Watt, ed.s

In the past few decades, radical fundamentalists have become a major force in the global world. Or at least that what we often here in media outlets o…